Pay and payday

A job's salary (Game:setSalary, read with Game:getSalary) is a monthly amount in US dollars. The game pays it by itself: never pay wages from your mod, or the player is paid twice.

• Shift by shift. Each worked shift adds the salary divided by the days of that month, times 7 / the shifts in a week, so a full week pays the whole salary. A day off adds nothing; a missed shift is unpaid (see Jobs). A job with no hours or nowhere to be is paid every day, as before. Starting or leaving mid-period, a raise, a cut or a new job are all counted by the day.
• Payday depends on the job (below). The period's sum goes to cash once, through the ledger (key payroll:<period>), with a notification. A long sleep pays every period in it, in order; a load never pays one again.
• If the cash cannot hold it (the money stat's cap), the pay waits and is tried again each day.
• The wallet on the map's rail shows the job, how it is paid, what has been earned so far, the next payday and the last payslip.
• Rent and tuition are stored values that nothing charges; payroll does not charge them either.

#Pay schedules are mod data

Payroll/*.ulpay in any mod says when a job is paid:

lua-- ynl_Nightlife/Payroll/nightlife.ulpay
return {
    titles = {
        ["Bartender"] = { every = "weekly", weekday = 5 },   -- paid every Friday
        ["Promoter"] = "daily",
    },
    workplaces = {
        nightclub = { every = "biweekly", weekday = 4 },    -- any job whose workplace is a nightclub
    },
}

A job's title (as Actor:setJob wrote it) is looked up first, then its workplace's venue tag, then default. Later mods override entries one by one. ul_Base ships Payroll/schedules.ulpay with the default (monthly).

#From Lua